Recent content by JBCrowson

For me (and of course this is only one person's view) fantasy asks the reader to set aside some of what they know about the world and substitute some alternate rules of the writer's instead. However there's only a certain amount of setting aside the rules of our world you can ask me to do...

Glad to hear you're feeling better Dolly

Better to find the hole now than on Kindle, lol. Happy Friday Tuesday (sorry, feeling frivolous and just wanted to type that!)

I mean, there's signs of them all over the place, like scattering seeds... or beer cans. Lots of sightings, too, but that could just be another unicorn thing. I think sightings of men are really unicorns, think about it. Men supposedly have this big thing sticking up out the front of them -...

OK, (takes deep breath) draft 2 is done, just shy of 105k words. Off to the beta readers with it, if I can lure the sullen beasts from their indolent stupor. Onto book 2 draft 2, which is looking a lot bigger piece of work than it did, owing to the changes to book one's structure.

I think this is an area that is likely to change, perhaps is already. People have become accustomed to emojis and the text renditions of them, so <3 them or not, the typographic lexicon is expanding. Personally, I use single questions marks and rarely single exclamation marks. Not only do I not...

Made some good progress, finished the rewrite of The King's Ball chapter, and closed off two minor characters' arcs. 103k words, 13k of those this month. A scene with the antagonist to set up the finale properly, review some of the in-world chapter epigrams and draft two could be about done.

Re-worked a scene, cut out some navel fluff last night, added the biggest missing piece, now at 100k.

turns out we have a Dragon King who's a scene stealer, Our beloved dragon on here excepted, its just the way with dragons that they stomp in and take over everything. Couple of millennia on the naughty step should sort them out.

I think writing a plot can be like solving a puzzle, where you think you are just about to solve it, then the last piece doesn't fit. Don't panic, take a few pieces out then re-order them, turn one or two upside down and rejig them, and see if they now fit. Also remember that sometimes your...

My WIP is running at a way slower rate, I made a major structural change in the summer to split it into two books, and have a non-linear chronology for the first one. I'm really happy with how it's shaping up. I'm 90k in, probably looking at 100-110 by the end, with book 2 needing more work and...

I use Fantasia Archive, which is a free to down load app. It can run entirely on your computer which is how I use it, or you can set it up to be web accessible so you can use it from any computer. It's aimed at world building for writing / game making / D&D scenario creators. It has built in...

That's awesome. You absolutely have to send it to that email.

Sounds interesting, all sorts of ways you could take a story from that set up. The struggle between light and dark is always popular if it's done well and has some new element to add.

Welcome, and don't be nervous (we all were to start). Every finished novel was at one point an idea that someone had in their mind. I Look forward to hearing more about it, and about your progress on the long journey to holding your idea in your hands in paper form.